Microsoft chastises Google on copyrights

07 March 2007

Microsoft chastises Google on copyrightsZDNet - 3 hours ago

Google's narrow view of the protections that copyright law offers creators has famously made enemies of book publishers, news organizations and professional photographers over the last few years.

Now Microsoft, which is increasingly competing with Google in business software and other areas, is piling on its rival as well

Microsoft Attorney Accuses Google of Copyright ViolationsInformationWeek, NY - 4 hours ago

In prepared remarks delivered today at Association of American Publishers annual meeting in New York, Thomas Rubin, associate general counsel for copyright, trademark, and trade secrets at Microsoft, called Google's business model "troubling" and accused Google of violating copyright law.

The Association of American Publishers no doubt welcomed Rubin's remarks, given that the organization sued Google in October 2005 for seeking, as AAP president Patricia Schroeder put it at the time, "to make millions of dollars by freeloading on the talent and property of authors and publishers" through its Book Search project.

My Yahoo upgrade coming soonComputerworld, MA - March 06, 2007

Yahoo Inc.'s My Yahoo service, which lets users aggregate content and services on a single Web page, will soon get a significant upgrade, the company's CEO said Tuesday.
The enhancement to My Yahoo is part of the company's continued emphasis on giving users tools to personalize their Internet experience, said CEO Terry Semel at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco, which was webcast.
Use Skype in your business without risking your PCsiTWire, Australia – March 6, 2007

IW Distribution is selling in Australia and New Zealand a Skype-certified gateway that enables Skype to be used for incoming and outgoing calls over multiple lines via a standard PBX on analogue telephones.


IW Distribution releases a new generation of PBX-to-Skype GatewaysComputerworld, - March 6, 2007

IW Distribution announces the availability in Australia and NZ of new VoSKY Exchange 9040 and 9080 Skype PBX gateways for small and mid-sized businesses

IW Distribution announced the launch of two new PBX-Skype gateway products, the VoSKY Exchange 9040/9080, capable of adding 4 or 8 Skype lines to the PBX with no change in phone or additional equipment

Microsoft Office finds its voiceZDNet – March 07, 2007

After months of anticipation, corporate customers will soon get their hands on a beta version of Microsoft's voice over IP software, an event that marks an important step in the evolution of corporate communications.

Microsoft is staging the long-awaited coming-out party for its IP telephony software with an announcement that the public beta release of Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft's voice over IP and unified communications server, and Office Communicator 2007, Microsoft's unified communications client, will be available to testers later this month.

MS' Unified Communications Server and Client to Get Public BetaseWeek, MA – March 7, 07

Microsoft will distribute the public beta of its voice over IP and unified communications server, Office Communications Server 2007, and its unified communications client, Office Communicator 2007, to millions of testers later this month.

Microsoft is also, for the first time, making the interoperability specifications for both products available to partners.